Dreaming Life

  “Just had the longest, most extensive, lucid dream of my life” -from my dream journal, 2:50am, August 24, 2007   A few nights ago I had the most fantastic lucid dream of my life. This experience was far more fulfilling than any other lucid dream I’d ever had. I’ve never had a dream anywhere [...]

  The nontheistic aspect of Buddhism intrigues me because I have a hard time identifying with anything that strikes of theism. I’ll grant you that the idea of God existing, an omnipotent creator of all that is, is at least an interesting explanation worth pursuing. This theory might not be right, but it’s not a [...]

What is a Lucid Dream? “A lucid dream is a dream in which the person is aware that he or she is dreaming while the dream is in progress. During lucid dreams, it is often possible to exert conscious control over the dream characters and environment, as well as to perform otherwise physically impossible feats.” [...]

  I can’t remember the exact point when I first heard about lucid dreaming. I always maintained an interest in my own dream and I actually recall dreams that I had when I was maybe as young as 4 or 5 years old. But the earliest I can place my interest in lucid dreaming is [...]

Will virtual reality mean the death of lucid dreaming? Recently I saw the movie eXistenZ by David Cronenburg. It’s about a fully-encompassing virtual reality game, where of course, something screwy happens and you begin to question what’s real and what’s not. To play, you have to surgically install a “bio-port” at the base of the [...]

I found something really wild tonight. I guess it’s old news since the patent is from 2003, but I see that Stephen LaBerge, the most famous lucid dream researcher and lucid dream author in the world, has a patent on “substances that enhance recall and lucidity during dreaming.” Patent number 20040266659, to be exact. Here’s [...]

Recently I discovered a new website called Why We Dream, which explains a new theory of dreaming known as The Expectation Fulfilment Theory of Dreaming. This theory has been put together by psychologist Joe Griffin, co-author of the book Dreaming Reality, as well as the Director of Studies at MindsField college, and a big player [...]

I got my Sirius Sound and Light Machine for Christmas about 6 months ago. I’ve found some very pleasurable uses for with my mind machine plus some marijuana but now I love it even more as I’ve discovered just how f view full post »

In A Psychonaut’s Guide to the Invisible Landscape: The Topography of the Psychedelic Experience, author Dan Carpenter makes many startling claims based on his experiences with the dissociative psychedelic DXM. (Yep, dextromethorphan – the stuff of cough syrup!) He’s not simply having a subjective journey insid view full post »

  All the questions brought up in this book answer to a bigger question, perhaps the biggest question of all: Can we trust our own subjective experiences? This innocent-sounding question is one of enormous implication. At times when I read his words I thought to myself that if I accept what he says, than by [...]